Speaker

Examples

• All

• Point of order, Mr. Speaker.

  The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

• Top right: Sir Heneage Finch, Speaker of the House of Commons in the 1626 Parliament.

  Academic text (2011)

• No, he did not, Mr Speaker, can he confirm?

• And somebody who's always on my watch list is the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

• Please give a warm drag race welcome to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

• Congressman Mike Kelly voted for former Speaker Boehner.

• Mr. Speaker, Seneca, not the Neros of this world, should be an example to us.

  The Lost City (2005)

• It doesn't look good for Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

• Nevertheless, Obama and outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proceeded.

  Academic text (2011)

• The Speaker presided over the debate in the House of Commons yesterday.

Synonyms

C

chair

vsSpeaker

258 3.1

A person who leads a meeting or committee

is the legislative role focused on presiding over formal debates

P

presiding officer

vsSpeaker

• Formal

3 6.1

A person who leads a meeting and makes sure it runs correctly

is specific to a legislature running debates in parliament or a house

Compounds

K

keynote speaker

18 3.7

A main speaker at a conference who gives the most important talk

P

public speaker

10 3.0

A person who gives speeches to an audience in public

N

native speaker

5 3.3

A person who learned a language as a child and uses it as their main language

S

speaker system

4 2.7

A set of machines that make music or speech louder for a room

D

dynamic speaker

• Specialized

6.8

A speaker that makes sound by moving a cone attached to a wire coil near a magnet

M

magnetostrictive speaker

• Specialized

8.2

A device that makes sound by metal changing shape in a magnetic field, often used in underwater devices

M

monitor speaker

• Specialized

4.5

A loud speaker on stage that faces performers so they can hear themselves

I

intercom speaker

• Specialized

3.5

A small speaker that plays voice announcements from an intercom or public address system

S

salutatory speaker

• US

9.1

A graduating student with the second highest rank who gives the opening speech at graduation

S

speaker identification

• Specialized

6.8

Finding who a person is from the sound of their voice

S

speaker unit

• Specialized

3.7

A device that turns electric signals into loud sound you can hear from far away

V

valedictory speaker

• Formal

7.3

A student who gives the farewell speech at graduation

How Powerful

Speaker

678 6.4

political leader

62 3.0

floor leader

• Formal

2 6.8

whip

68 7.8

backbencher

• Jargon

2 7.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology